In the filings, Anthropic states, as reported by the Washington Post: “Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world. We don’t want it to be known that we are working on this.”

  • Teal@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    4 hours ago

    AI is not my thing. I don’t really appreciate these companies scanning everything under the sun, but this is a case where Google did it better. They used a custom scanner that didn’t require books to be destroyed in order to scan.

    • slowcakes@programming.dev
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      4 hours ago

      That’s what they tell you, but really they hire cheap labor working for pennies in poor countries flipping books. Do you really believe google has Infrastructure to scan all the books in the world in decent amount of time, because I have bridge to sell.